Chad Awkerman of Dualshockers.com writes (and rants) about the divide between JRPGs and Western RPGs.
The friendly folks over at Razer recently sent us their full size Kishi Ultra mobile gaming controller, and this thing didn't disappoint.
VGChartz's Mark Nielsen: "Upon finally finishing Devil May Cry 5 recently - after it spent several years on my “I’ll play that soon” list - I considered giving it a fittingly-named Late Look article. However, considering that this was indeed the final piece I was missing in the DMC puzzle, I decided to instead take this opportunity to take a look back at the entirety of this genre-defining series and rank the entries. What also made this a particularly tempting notion was that while most high-profile series have developed fairly evenly over time, with a few bumps on the road, the history of Devil May Cry has, at least in my eyes, been an absolute roller coaster, with everything from total disasters to action game gold."
Me leaving it out should be telling of my thoughts on it. Better than 2 as a DMC game.
Still a good game though.
3,1,4,5 to me, never played 2. 5 gameplay is amazing but level design was really disappointing to me, just a bunch of plain arenas, the story felt like a worse written rehash of the 3rd and the charater models looked weird ( specially the ladies ). Another problem with 5 was that there was not enough content for 3 charaters so I could never really familiarize with any of them
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God DMC2 was an awful game.
And in case this isn't obvious it goes worst to best
The Epic Games Store continues to dish out free games and you can add two more to your library this week.
how about the fact is all describe is location
They arent genres
This article is stupid as hell
Demon souls isnt a jrpg? Than what was kings field? Oh thats right. Its sub genre is ation rpg and its location descriptor is jrpg
look at the main rpg wiki to learn
The article makes some very good points, but Dark/Semons Souls are definitely JRPG. The distinction between the 2 is only an origin descriptor. If it is anything more than that it is wrong, as there are obvious exceptions to "western" and "japanese" styles everywhere and there always has been.
I thought this sort of thing was obvious. It's really NOT about where the game was made, but about the STYLE in which the game is designed.
Dark Souls and Demon's Souls have far more in common with Dragon Age than they do with Persona 4. Final Fantasy XIII, which is always said to have too heavy of a Western influence, has more in common with .hack than with Fallout.
There are fundamentally different gaming styles which define the two types of games; as such, it's perfectly possible for a Japanese company- like ATLUS- to make a WRPG, or for a Western developer- who ISN'T full of themselves- to make a JRPG.
I agree with this article 100%. I get asked to play Skyrim, Fallout and other WRPGs all the time because I've always liked Final Fantasy and other JRPGs. I've tried, I don't like them.